Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine
Promotional artwork for Season 9 featuring both core series, Buffy and Angel & Faith. Art by Jo Chen.
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Horror
Publication date	August 2011 – September 2013
Number of issues	25 (each core series) 5 (each miniseries)
Main character(s)	Scooby Gang
Creative team
Writer(s)	Buffy: Joss Whedon Andrew Chambliss Scott Allie Jane Espenson Drew Z. Greenberg Angel & Faith: Christos Gage Spike: A Dark Place: Victor Gischler Willow: Wonderland: Jeff Parker Christos Gage
Penciller(s)	Buffy: Georges Jeanty Karl Moline Cliff Richards Ben Dewey Angel & Faith: Rebekah Isaacs Phil Noto Chris Samnee Lee Garbett Spike: A Dark Place: Paul Lee Willow: Wonderland: Brian Ching
Creator(s)	Joss Whedon
Collected editions
Freefall	ISBN
On Your Own	ISBN
Guarded	ISBN
Welcome to the Team	ISBN
The Core	ISBN
Live Through This	ISBN
Daddy Issues	ISBN
Family Reunion	ISBN
Death and Consequences	ISBN
What You Want, Not What You Need	ISBN
Spike: A Dark Place	ISBN
Willow: Wonderland	ISBN

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine is a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics from 2011 to 2013. It is the sequel to the Season Eight comic book series, a canonical continuation of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Season Nine brand also incorporates a new Buffy spin-off series, Angel & Faith, and two spin-off miniseries Willow: Wonderland and Spike: A Dark Place. Each core series consisted of 25 issues and each miniseries consisted of 5 issues.

While Joss Whedon, the creator of the original television series, shares writing duties with Andrew Chambliss on the main series, Christos Gage writes Angel & Faith.

At the start of Season Nine, the series focuses on Buffy living in San Francisco in a world without magic.Angel & Faith, on the other hand, is set primarily in London and pursues several plot threads from Season Eight.

The series were followed in 2014 by the start of a Season Ten line of Buffy and Angel & Faith comics.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine continues the plot thread from the previous series, focusing on Buffy and her core group of friends. After the Twilight crisis, in which she destroyed the 'Seed of Wonder' and consequently brought about the end of magic, Buffy is now living in San Francisco and must continue her duties as the Slayer. However, there is a new status quo in Buffy's personal life as well as in her Slayer career. For example, in the process of becoming a vampire, demons are no longer able to fully possess the dead, creating mindless creatures which Xander coins "zompires". Xander and Buffy's sister Dawn have settled into a quiet domestic life together, and Buffy's best friend Willow no longer possesses magical abilities. Andrew and Riley are still friends of Buffy's, but she sees them less frequently. Buffy lives with two seemingly normal roommates, Tumble and Anaheed, and the job of patrolling for vampires initially falls to Buffy and her ex-lover Spike, a vampire with a soul.